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Rev. Dr. A’Shellarien Addison is a Board Certified Army Chaplain, spiritual clinical trauma-informed practitioner, prolific author, publisher, adult and pediatric hospice chaplain, international speaker, mentor, wife, mother, and grandmother. She hosts A Healing Moment With Dr. A’Shellarien on REACH Gospel Radio. She is the CEO of Desakajo’s Flo, which includes publishing, record production, credit empowerment, and travel. She is a Senior Sales Associate for LifeVantage, the company that provides premier health and wellness solutions. Rev. Dr. A’Shellarien is the author of Does Love Cover…THAT?: The Healing Process of the Fruit of the Spirit; Finding Me: A Woman’s Theology of Self-Identification; Beside the Still Waters: Having Faith Even When….; The Chick on the Side: From the Heart of a Wife; A Conversation With Myself: Healing the Internal Voice; Spiritual Alpha Female: Unleashing 9 Leadership Principles from Proverbs 31; Refreshing Reflections: 365 Moments of Meditation Military Edition, Spiritual Awakening: 7 Shifts From Who I Am To Who I Am Becoming; Going Back For Me: Reconciling Pain and Peace When Trauma Collides With Faith; Created To Make The Not Good, Good: 9 MasterKeys of a GOOD Wife; This is Not That: Black Women and White Women Breaking the Chains of Religious Racial Psychological Violence In the Rise of Kamala Harris; I Need A Minute: Embracing Your Mental Health A Guide For People of Faith; What The Trump: The Pendulum Swing Of Hope; Love Across Continents: 8 Masterseeds For A Landscape of Love: A Guide to Nurturing Long-Distance Relationships Through 1 Corinthians 13:4-8; Between Collateral Damage And Collateral Grace: Navigating the Sacred Space Between the Impact of Other People’s Choices and the Extension of Divine Love; Living Unbothered On Purpose: Pause, Pray, Plan; Living Unbothered On Purpose: Pause, Pray, Plan For Men Only; No More Pieces: Holding on To Me After Emotional Trauma; The Wounded Follower: How Rejection Sensitivity and Religious Trauma Creates Political Zealots; The Inherited Alarm System: The Strong Woman Tax-Paying For What We Never Chose; Soul Signals: How the Brain Talks to Your Spirit—And Why It Matters;  Say Her Name From Genesis 1 To Judges 19 To Today: Protecting Women, Confronting Abuse, and Rebuilding Sisterhood; God Hears Unicorns, Too; Big Boys Only; Being Smart Is My Super Power; My Crown, My Beauty, My Hair; Kweku’s Treasure; Ariel and Navi: Adventures in the TechnoGarden; Girlin’ Like A Boss: Speak Life, Shine Bright, and Grow In Confidence; Big Boy Squad Reporting For Duty: Speak Life, Stand Strong, and Grow In Character; and a contributing writer of Black Women and Girls Matter: Voices of Resilience, Resistance, and Resolve. She has an Associate of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education, a Bachelor of Science in Urban Ministry Leadership, a Master of Divinity and a Master of Sacred Theology, and a Doctor of Theology in Biblical Theology. Dr. Addison is completing a Doctor of Education in Traumatology from Liberty University. She has four units of Clinical Pastoral Education and is certified in Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy through the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). She is trained in Marriage and Family Therapy from the Council for Relationships in Philadelphia, PA. She is a graduate of the Mental Health Integration for Chaplain Services (MHICS) program through the Uniformed Services University. She is a graduate of Delaware Leadership Academy. She is an ordained Itinerant Elder in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, serving on the ministerial staff of Mother Bethel AME in Philadelphia, PA. Chaplain Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) A’Shellarien is the first woman to serve as Chaplain in the over 240-year history of the Delaware Army National Guard (DEARNG). CH (LTC) A’Shellarien deployed with the DEARNG 198th Expeditionary Signal Battalion in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (Spartan Shield) in 2019. She served as the first Army National Guard Headquarters Battalion/ Temple Army Readiness Center Installation Chaplain at the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, VA. She currently serves as the Delaware Army National Guard's 261st Theater Tactical Signal Brigade (TTSB) Chaplain.

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